Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes editor and publisher
Please take a moment and read Lara Korte’s last story that she filed for Stars and Stripes published 3 hours ago. Thank you Lara for your professional dedication and journalistic values. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
Richard Clary12Big story. The Pentagon under Hegseth has no desire for a free press. Is there any means to remove him other than resignation or Trump. Was Hegseth really partisan campaigning in Iowa this week? It seems difficult to run for President after losing a war to Iran.
janepor00325520.bsky.social8Thank you, Ms. Korte. Please take a look at the independent journalism sites where you can continue to tell your story.
SkynetAndChill.com7Love the Constitution so much they use it for toilet paper in their bathroom
The Omnibro6They said they were gonna use their ombudsman in congress to help with Pete’s unhinged demands guess that didn’t work. Time for the rest to follow it can’t be trusted now.
Toby Bartels5Awful. But now I want to know who's going to run @starsandstripes.bsky.social now? (and how?).
idahobob.bsky.social4The GOP Dragged us into 3 Middle East Wars Wasting Trillions of dollars Service members paid with their lives, their health and mental health for this bullshit The GOP=Corruption and this fear of the truth is a beacon of that corruption
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson27Insubordination in a journalist? Exactly what does that even mean? The boys in Hegseth’s DOD are way out of control and getting worse. If that’s even possible.
Melissa Jo Peltier20The Trump administration HATES the men & women who make up the military. They are simply chess pieces to Hegseth & co.
newmexicanextexan.bsky.social8"Stars and Stripes" was respected for its unbiased reporting for decades.
David Darmofal3Never forget that Hegseth's mentor at Princeton was the conservative activist academic Robert P. George, the guy behind these right-wing centers on college campuses. Is this who America wants shaping higher education in America? I don't think so.
Karen Langsam3🧵Lee is right. Read Korte’s last words. Heartbreaking ⬇️
Eugene Freedman3Wrong charge: insubordination is failure to follow a lawful order from someone w authority to issue the order. But, federal employees have been stripped of their rights & I suspect a vapid Merit Systems Protection Board will not care if management can actually establish the elements of the charge.
The Creatively Maladjusted3Click through, show the paper through their analytics that they fired someone valuable.
doreengarfield WAR ZONE SURVIVOR2So basically all the main people at Stars and Stripes are gone/fired. For telling the truth. That should motivate the military!!! I want Congress to know that Trump will probably get away with everything or minimal punishment or death, and YOU will not be able to get out of the hell YOU created.
Otto von Biz Markie2I thought I was past being able to be shocked by this administration but every time I think that they go and prove me wrong. My jaw was on the floor reading that screenshot, but yes, you should all go read Lara's last story.
The Pentagon on Friday moved to fire the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes as well as its retiring publisher and a civilian reporter who covers the Middle East for the news organization. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... #Flashes
CascadiaCoug40Oh did fragile Pete get upset about you printing facts?
Cutter34Let me fix that for you: The Pentagon Friday moved to open themselves up for not one, not two, but THREE wrongful termination lawsuits.
JbTstorm20This is terrible news. I appreciated your news and stories. Now I'm afraid it will all be propaganda. Fair skies and following seas.🫡
Meertext16What a pity. But how can Pentagon fire editor and reporter, when Stars and Stripes is an independant magazine?
Joel Welter12Pity that I won't be able to trust the editorial independence of this publication in the future. What a wreck this administration is causing to every facet of U.S. life.
Curious Doubter 🌍🕊️12😔 Stars and Stripes workers are civilian federal employees DoD can terminate staff for administrative reasons like "insubordination." One characteristic of fascism is the total control over information to shape public perception and maintain power.
Nicholas Slayton245Here is Stars and Stripes' own very good article on the firing of its EIC and Middle East correspondent. Read their work.
Doug Lucas3"Erik Slavin, the editor-in-chief, said he was being fired for insubordination after stating [...] that censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line in the Pentagon’s efforts [...] 'I stand by [...] that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law"
glitterck.bsky.social2Fired because they told the TRUTH...
yazikus2"“These firings are a shame for the institution and service members, who swore to defend the Constitution and deserve the right to a free and independent press,” she said."
James J.2“Stars & Stripes will be custom tailored to our warfighters. It will focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability, and ALL THINGS MILITARY. No more repurposed DC gossip columns; no more Associated Press reprints.” — Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell
Trust Me, I’m an Art Major2“I stand by the principle that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department’s own policies,” he said in a statement Friday.
In a blow to press freedoms within the US military, the Pentagon has forced out several top staffers at Stars & Stripes, the military publication with a long record of editorial independence. Full story: www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/m...
RJ 🇺🇦🇦🇺8Mrs Hegseth is likely behind this, trying to shore up her incompetent husband's tanking reputation. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
smithjohnny.bsky.social7This is what happens in communist countries. Muting the press. 
When you fear accurate, unbiased reporting … you’re no different than Russia or China or North Korea.
Ivo Knobloch6Part of trying to control what those thousands of US sailors, marines, soldiers, pilots of the Lincoln and Tripoli are going to say when they come ashore … trying to imagine when kind of career ending intimidation debriefing campaign is already taking place …
PC Sherry🦋5Hegseth wants to get rid of anyone who disagrees with the regime. And anyone who is smarter than him. There won’t be a soul in the military.
LocoRunner5Saw this coming. This administration prefers to work in darkness - like the cockroaches they are.
Stephen Gutowski180All this authoritarian nonsense projects is brittleness. It says our military is so damn weak that it can't handle any level of criticism. It's a really bad sign about what's going on there.
MJW5Stars & Stripes is a great publication that more people should pay attention to. This is a huge blow to press freedom and good reporting from an in the military pov.
"The Defense Department on Friday fired the publisher and the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, a government-funded news outlet that reports on the U.S. military..." Seems significant, but hard to tell these days. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
Linotype Pilgrim5just a few days ago they reported on the US warships that have no food and water and have human waste sloshing the cabins
Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts4probably bad, just playing the odds given all the trends of our times
Aimee Loiselle2It's been part of ongoing pressure by the White House and Pentagon to bend the mission of the newspapers, which is to report for the troops. Not for the commanders or politicians or joint chiefs, etc. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Marxism no Jutsu1that's actually very very bad. one of my fellow reporters used to work for them (after they were in the Air Force), and they were given a wide berth by the DoD and the president. (that said, most of the writers were pro-america jingoists so they didn't really need the tight leash)
Douglas Charles Johnson II1"...and we've heard even Cronkite's gonna say the war is now unwinnable." - Full Metal Jacket (1987
Punishing and eliminating the free press is a hallmark of fascism. Journalists work for their respective outlets and they simply cover the Pentagon. They can’t work for the Pentagon … that would make them state sanctioned media. Lara’s firing should enrage & terrify everyone.
Phillipe Copeland, PhD3If the press isn't free, then neither are we
John2That's because they're fascists and are trying to implement project 2025.
Michaelrhuff2Journalists are among the first to go in a dictatorship.
Lalura 📎2Well the United States asked for this and now we're getting it 😑
Robyn2Fired the editor, the publisher and a reporter…..that’s excessive to say the least. Just shut down the paper for Christ’s sake.
sanneru.bsky.social1And Russia against a german journalist. Regimes are always looking for a way to silence independence press.
Which should be the baseline for *all* journalists and media publications By and for the troops. Stars and Stripes started with that motto in WWI. And they demonstrate their integrity - one of the Army’s core values - today.
GDeWeese4Hegseth wouldn't recognize the Army Values if a mysterious hand appeared and wrote them on a wall in front of him.
BigKungFu3Too bad that none of the senior DoD leadership has integrity... Or honor... Or courage... (Let's start a list!)
Stranger In The Alps2Show me an official confirmation of every terrible story we’ve seen about the treatment of service members during the Iran War without showing me an official confirmation of every terrible story we’ve seen about the treatment of service members during the Iran War.
Trump's Pentagon fires the publisher and editor in chief of Stars and Stripes about 10 days after the military newspaper reported on hardships that Navy sailors were facing on the USS Abraham Lincoln. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
Kate in PA2The snow flakes in the White House and at the top of the DoD can't bear any free thinkers. It's their way - lying -- or the highway. They are such tiny little men.
Allan Schlosser1Thanks to Pacific Stars & Stripes, U.S. troops in Vietnam enjoyed unrestricted access to objective reporting, including coverage of the war itself, along with a full range of op-ed commentary. Its editorial independence must be protected!
acitizenlawyer.bsky.social1Trump and Vance are all about free speech and a free press? Bullshit!
youvotedforthis2.bsky.social1Stars & Stripes was created on November 9, 1861, by a small group of Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, who wanted to publish a newspaper written by and for soldiers to share battlefield news and express their own perspectives. Why does the Pentagon have any say at all?
